Describes several shared reading activities that pair up older and younger elementary level students. (MM)

Describes several activities to maintain first graders' enthusiasm for reading, such as paired reading with third grade and kindergarten students, and other reading aloud activities outside the reading group. (MM)

Describes an assignment that required noneducation majors enrolled in a children's literature class to read aloud and tell stories to preschool children as an alternative to writing a term paper. Describes the activities and materials used. (FL)

Describes an innovative middle school program (called Family Reading) where a family-like atmosphere of attentiveness and helpfulness characterizes student interactions as they develop and practice strategies for reading aloud with younger children. Discusses children's literature and strategy learning and the family component of the project. (SR)

Uses excerpts from children's conversations to illustrate talk that occurs in three regular contexts in which struggling readers can work: weekly visits to a day care center where they read to younger children, daily partner reading, and daily inquiry project time. Suggests ways to promote talk in each context that will empower these learners. (SR)

Hawaiian fifth graders learned to teach reading and peacemaking to kindergartners. After receiving instruction on peacemaking, leadership, and storytelling, the students taught the kindergartners about peace, chose books to read to them, practiced reading aloud, then read to their selected partners, using the strategies they had learned in class.…